That's better. Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for
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Got your host, James J. I am joined by Melissa K. Good morning. Seth Habagger. Good morning.
And the best listeners and radio all of you. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody. We hope
you're having a fantastic day out there. We appreciate the time. We're going to get in some fun
stuff this hour and a little bit. We're going to touch on 10 plus things we're glad millennials
ended or ruined. That's nice. Should be an interesting one. That should be an interesting one.
We'll get into that. We have got some of that. He writes stories. Good stories to the day. All lined
up for you. We got some local good stuff we'll get into as well. All of that coming up for you.
But right now, as you may have heard in CBS Newsbreak right there, Netflix has been notoriously
tight-lipped about its viewer data since its existence. Right. There was no need or I shouldn't say
there was no need, but there was no incentive for them to share these information. They were
better suited by it being more clouded in mystery or left up to when you go on Netflix,
they're top 10. That kind of thing. That's about as much as they did. But shareholders are big.
Shareholders speak loud. Let's see whether they're not making any money.
They're going to start releasing this now from every year. They're going to be doing this,
and I think you're going to see a lot more of this. We've already seen this from a lot of
apps, from a lot of streaming services. Spotify, a lot of places do this kind of thing,
and it's fun. A lot of people have a good time with it. It's also for shareholders.
100% man. It's always going to come back to that. When you look at this top 10 of the night
agent, Ginny and George, the Gloria Wednesday, and Queen Charlotte, a Bridgerton story all in
their top five of most views. What I find interesting is the way they're doing this with the hours
of time that people are watching these. For example, the night agent is number one, season one of
that 812.1 million hours of viewing. That's an interesting algorithm to use to figure these
things out. I was curious of how they were going to do this. If you don't watch the whole show,
if you just start the first five minutes of it, and for that to count, you can't consider
that a viewing, right? No. I wouldn't. If I have this right and I double-check this last night
just to make sure, with streaming services like Spotify, if I play at least 30 seconds of a
song that counts. Yes. To your guy's point, I don't know viewing wise if it's the same for Netflix
and Hulu in these places, but I'm gathering you guys right about that. I'm pretty sure that's
how that works. It would be nice if those songs you listened to the 30 seconds of and you didn't
like would not reappear in your listen to you. It's like, I don't want this in my, how do I get
rid of it? Out of these shows, there's 10 shows on here. Other than Wednesday, I haven't watched
any of these. I don't think I've watched any of them. I've heard good things about the TV show
or about the show you, but I've never gotten the chance to see it. But I find that interesting as well.
Because even just two years ago, I wouldn't have said that. Netflix probably would have had
three or four shows on here that I would have been watching and taken in. I'm not alone. A lot of
people would have, again, there's so many other options. There's other options and Netflix has
been shooting themselves in the foot left and right. They get a good show and they either
nix it or cut it or they make it, you know, what, hey, stranger things, you're really popular.
Let's wait two years until we release the next season. You know, where it sounds like a good idea.
Well, and you know, people look at the sopranos as an example of the people being networks being
able to do this and get away with it. What they're not doing is doing the next step. The sopranos
fan base was an older fan base and it was a different time. We waited a week to watch shows. We
didn't mind, whether we mind it or not, we had to do it. Yeah. And we didn't. It wasn't a choice.
The stranger things fan base for one is a younger fan base that wants things quicker and they're
used to having that. And they're most of them are not only teenagers but young adults. And if
look, I was a teenager. I was a young adult. I get this. I'm into this right now. Doesn't
mean I'm going to be into it a year from now. Right. You know, I think this is cool today.
Yep. Doesn't mean it's going to be cool even tomorrow, let alone two years from now when the
second season comes out or whatever. Exactly. You do yourself no good. If whatever industry
you're doing, I don't care what it is. If you don't put the people first, they are what make
your industry, whether it is TV and radio, music, anything. You're a mechanic. You've got to put
the people first. It's business 101. It's not rocket science. This is not hard. But Netflix and
other companies like this, they continue to put profit ahead of business ahead of their people.
I don't think it's a far-fetched thing to think, is Netflix going to be around in five or ten years?
Maybe a radically different forum. This is what is so mind-boggling to me about this is they
had a head start. They did. They had a bigger jump than anybody by leaps and miles. They were the
only game in town at one point. They were it. This is the equivalent, if McDonald's mucked up
the fast food business. There was five McDonald's around right now or something. That's literally
the business equivalent of this. Instead of opening another restaurant. Yeah, exactly.
They're doing, but I would say in ten years, what's Netflix going to be? I'll add all the time.
It's so true. On the new NBC show found, Mark Paul Gossard plays a evil kidnapper who was inspired
by Ted Bundy. But when he was asked, if this is the darkest characters ever played, right away
responded, no, not by a long shot. That honor belongs to Zach Morris from Save By The Bell.
He said, quote, Zach is, quote, a master manipulator and one of the most
nefarious characters on television. Not just that he's played on television. Wow.
He even pointed out that there was an entire YouTube series called Zach Morris' Trash,
where a guy showed all the horrible things Zach did. Of course, Gossler was being a little
tongue-in-cheek, but he said that the observations made about Zach on the show aren't wrong.
I liked that he did this. A lot of times actors will come back and kind of push back on these
things or take it personal or something. He gets it. I don't know Mark Paul Gossard that well,
but I've always admired that he has been able to keep getting parts and push through and
kept working and stuff, and I think that that's a credit to any person that perseveres.
I'm not saying it's the same perseverance, you know, I'm not making light of that word, but
it's cool that he's done this. And I think it's very, very needed to be said. I never, never,
my sister loved that show, and I could never understand why. Even for the time it was outdated,
I feel like. Even in the 90s, it was a little like, this isn't high school.
Maybe this was high school. It was clearly written by people that were in high school
in the 60s or 70s or something, and it had no idea what 80s and 90s kids were like.
Yeah, right. At all. It was an odd show that you mentioned it now, yes.
And still not as odd as the show he's currently on. That's a weird show.
They give away the best part, the trailers. I mean, I don't understand.
I think it's pretty safe to say that George Clooney is one of the greater actors in the game
today has been for decades. And one of the more honest celebrities out there too. George
Clooney has always kind of left, you know, he let wears his emotions on his sleeve. He's a very,
you know, very open interviews. And he's gotten to a stage in his career too, where he also doesn't
really have to like put on airs. No, he can be him. He can pretty much be him. George Clooney
isn't mind-defending, you know, one portion of the audience, if you will, or that kind of thing.
He's good. And companies are good with that. Now, one person who may not be good with him
being completely honest is his wonderful wife. And for those that don't know, he has an amazing
wife. Oh, yeah. George Clooney is the second most talented person in that house.
George Clooney makes sure that he handles the cooking for his family, not his attorney wife,
ML. Maybe in part because the male is off doing some amazing things for our world and everything.
But he says, quote, she's one of the great advocates of the world. She takes on ISIS and all
these things every day this woman is facing, you know, kidnapping things and death threats.
Death threats. All this different stuff this woman does. So it's a little understandable that maybe
she's not a great cook. He says, I better be doing the cooking or we will all die.
George will be cooking a little Christmas turkey for the holidays this year. He also made one for
the exgiving. Apparently, he's a good cook, but doesn't have a big range of things he could cook.
He can do turkey. He's very honest about this. He's very like, I can make turkey. I'm good at that.
I can make that. I love the idea of this. It's also should be noted, I think, too, that's kind of
cool about this. This is not a family that has like 18 assistants or those kind of things.
They both, part of the reason that George Clooney was single for a very long time. He was.
Because he was looking for somebody that was that believed in the same things he did as far as
that goes. A lot of the people he was dating apparent, and this is all from him, really wanted
that life. 20 assistants and all these things. George Clooney wants to go get his own male. He wants
to go and get his own food. It looks to be real. Yeah. We need more of that society.
This one, I really would love to know how this went over with her. I got to think that she was
cool with it. I don't think George Clooney is a smart enough guy. I don't see him going forward with
this in a interview. Let's know. I've already joke about this quite a bit. I'm sure if it seems
a relationship is that kind of relationship. They're very aware of what their strengths and weaknesses
are. So yeah. If you get a chance to look into what a male Clooney is doing around the world right
now, I encourage you to do that. That woman is incredibly impressive doing some really cool work.
Wanted to wrap up with some local entertainment. In the course, we were touching on this with
our good friend Phil Hartley from Quality Plus Printing and in your words out here in Wisconsin
Rapids. Candle in the window comes back this week. Yeah. The wonderful holiday production from
our friends at Wisconsin Rapids Community Theater directed by the great Deb Sysinski.
That is awesome. And one of my theater moms. And so many of our favorites are on this stage
and so many great new favorites are out there. You've got two groups of casts for these kids.
That's so awesome. Really smart. And I was talking to Gretchen about this. This was Deb's idea.
Deb wanted to do that. Fabulous. They had so many great people try out for this. And Deb being the
big one of the biggest hearts in that theater. Couldn't say no to people. So you know, why not double cast?
Yeah, exactly. And I think that was a really cool idea. And it's all the more gives us the
opportunity to let people know why when we talk about encouraging people to be a part of things
at the theater. This is what we're talking about. These are the kind of people you're going to work
with. The kind of people who not only are going to give you an A plus product every show you see.
But also try to get all the heart you can on that stage.
Right. Right. Absolutely. And the set is amazing. God is that a cool set.
I don't know if you two have gotten to see it yet or not. But as soon as I saw it, I wanted to play
on it. I immediately became a little kid in one of the beyond that stage. In the train station.
Yes. Oh, so cool. Cheer on this amazing cast. Let's give him a full house. Let's give him a great
show. Be sure to be there. They've got shows going on kicking off again on the 14th, 15th,
16th, all seven o'clock shows on Saturday's 16th. Have a two o'clock matinee. Be sure to enjoy
that as well. Spread the word about this show. Let people know that it's going on and get people
to support this. Get your tickets right now at WRC theater dot org. That's WRC theater dot org.
You can also get them the day of a shows right at the front desk.
By local support local support the arts. That's indeed.
Taking a break. We'll be back with more fun. We're going to get into 10 plus things. We're glad
millennials ended or ruined coming up. Let's go. It's going to be fun on the morning show here at WFHR
locally grown radio. Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR.
That Christmas type of fee you know. Yeah.
I don't know if there'll be snow, but have a cup of cheer.
I ain't got that right, Burl. I don't know if there's going to be snow either, Burl.
Yeah, I have to mention because I do it every time I play one of his songs on trail tunes.
I'm distantly related to burlives. I just I just have to always throw that out there.
That's awesome. That's awesome. I would mention it too. I have it on my resume.
For no reason. It's still unrelated to burlives. Just to throw that out there.
One of the most unique voices I think I've ever heard. I always know it's him whenever I hear
even if it's a song. I don't know. We got it. We got to get into this one, everybody.
This is interesting, but millennials are constantly being blamed for ending and ruining things.
Not even American cheese has gotten into this. But now people on social media are talking
about things that they're actually glad that millennials torched. And there are some good
responses from this. I actually think I think this is actually kind of cool. For starters,
there are some serious things mentioned that included like homophobia and shunning of LGBTQ plus
community. A lot of that. The stigma is mental health, depression and anxiety. We are in a day
and age now where it is actually I think becoming a machismo thing, a manly thing to care about
your mental health. I think that. And to talk about it. Yeah. Being an absent father, millennial
dads have made daddy and cool. Yeah. The cool dad. I'm a daughter dad or something like that
is really big. Tea party with my daughter. Yeah. Long way from Mr. Mom. That's all said.
Yeah. Right. The quote, I hate my wife slash husband, John Rove jokes. Take my wife, please.
Yeah. That's died out there. That's all gone away. Oh goodness.
And the, yes, agreed. And it's not just that these are bad jokes. It's lazy. It's lazy humor too.
Obviously offensive, obviously wrong. And those say, hopefully, obviously wrong in those things.
But it's also that part of it too to me too. Then it should be mentioned.
The idea that work is the most important thing or that loyalty to the workplace,
millennial's pushed the notion that you shouldn't go above and beyond, you should act your wage
and be paid with your worth. Yes. That's a good one. I like that one. That one's tough on me.
I gotta admit, that's tough on me. Not only tough on me to do, but tough on me to rep my,
I have a lot of different layers to that one for me. Well, and it's also one of the things,
you know, it's, it's also like we kind of said before with makeup, you know,
it's what's comfortable for you kind of thing. Yeah. Feeling that you are required to go above
and beyond constantly. Yeah. For some people, they're like, no, I'm, I'm doing my job.
I'm getting paid a certain amount. I'm not going to do any more than that. But I mean,
then there's, you know, people like workaholic man over here. Yeah. They can't stop. So, you know,
many of us were instilled by our parents too. You know, always give your best.
Always do the best you can. Always put in good. And you will get good back. Right. So,
trying to do that in the workplace. Yeah. But there is a certain level where you go like,
it, well, you know, my mental health and my, my, my well-being is also important. Right.
You've got to be a balance there. And not allowing people to exploit you. If for having that,
you know, that motivation, you know, have being that thing because people will take advantage of that.
Yes, they will. I comes to mind that maybe we should mention this because it seems like when we
bring these things up, we're never really specific about it and half the people like, you know,
wonder, wait a minute. Am I a millennial or a Gen X? Am I Gen Z? Am I, what am I? I have no idea.
They have this broken down and you're right, Audemar listen. Right. You're redhead.
Not actually, but for the way they break this down, World War II, if you were born from 1922 to 1927,
postwar from 20 to 45 boomers, 46 to 54, the second generation of boomers, 55 to 64,
then Gen X is 65 to 80. So that would be the, all of us. Not me. Not Melissa. Right. Right. Right.
Millennials, 81 to 96. There you go. So there would be where you fall in, right? Yeah. Yeah.
But there's also a special, a special one in between those two that I actually fall in,
apparently. Right. Oh, there's a lot of iterations of this. Well, that's well. I wanted to wrap
on this because finally, Millennials 81 to 96, Gen Z 97 to 2012. So when it comes, this is also
a little bit like how it's gotten now with, you know, your sign and everything. Oh, your zodiac.
They seem to have tinkered with that a little bit too. They keep doing that with these things.
I think I know what I am. And then this happens. I'm like, I don't know what I am anymore. I thought
I was a fish. Unlabeled. Yes, that's what we are. We are unlabeled. A TV radio show that
will come into your network very soon. Yes. Very soon. I'm working on it. I'm working. I've
got the first three episodes written. I just got to get a year to do it. And that is going to
be a fun show. It is absolutely. And now speaking of fun, the more fun responses of things that
Millennials quote unquote ruined or destroyed. Okay. Like Millennials killed ironing clothes.
We don't really do that anymore. Yeah. I hate ironing. Yeah. Yeah. I'll bet.
When is it? When have you ever heard somebody say, I get to iron. Sorry, I can stay home in iron.
My mom has to do this a lot. And I never once saw her happy to iron. She's smiling while
they're ironing. Is that ever happened? Ever. Ever. Even on TV. Here's probably somebody out there
that enjoys it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I would be surprised. I wonder what happened to all the ironing
boards? What are they being used for now? Surfing. Surfing. Yeah. Yeah. Little kid toys.
You know. Yeah. I know the rural party ones. And that's where my ironing board went.
Nice. Nice. Continuing with the list of things Millennials
destroyed crappy chain restaurants like Hooters or some of them. Yeah. Towards the end of the 90s
and the early Oats, all of a sudden, like you went down your main street and there was just an Apple
B's, a TGF Friday. So there was like 80 of these things and a Hooties. Yeah. Yeah. And I think
that while we still have some of them, the ones that survived are the ones that should have been
there. You know, like that are good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good ownership and treat their employees
well. Are there even, are there even Ruby Tuesdays anymore? I think there's a few around.
There's some, I think. I got to think there's some of those around. Yeah. But then that's Robin.
Yeah. Nice. Nice. That's like 90. It was like one hit wonders of the 90s. Yeah. Like there
was so many of them. Floodrockers. Oh, another good one. Yes. Jump food. One person said healthy food,
hippie boomers started it. Gen X commercialized it. Millennials boosted it to the mainstream.
Okay. Interesting. Interesting. That's an interesting one to think. Yeah.
Cigarettes. Yeah. Getting rid of cigarettes. Yeah. Yeah. Man, I, that is one of those ones that
shocked me. I grew up thinking people are going to do this forever. Like this will never go away.
This will never even die down. Wow. It's, it's, yeah. I mean, it hasn't gone away. It has
died down. Yeah. Yeah. I, that's an important note, Melissa. Yeah. It certainly hasn't gone away.
But I never thought it would like dip. Like I never even thought it would dip. You know,
even even those numbers will go down a little bit, let alone to the point now where if you want
a regular cigarette, you might have to search for it. Like they, they, they, they, they,
there's certain companies that don't even make cigarettes anymore. Like I think it's Virginia
Slims or one of those ones or something that doesn't like I, I never thought that would happen.
I really am surprised by that. I'm genuinely in it. I'm, I'm so surprised when I'm surprised
nowadays, because it takes a lot to surprise anyone else. I would think country clubs. Yes. Oh,
yeah. Yeah. You can't come into all establishment because you are not the right color. I mean,
uh, right, right. You're not wearing a jacket. You're not wearing a jacket. Yeah. You cannot
have any of our martinis. I'm sorry. I don't want your club. All right. You can got nothing
in there for me. Yeah. I got your club right here. Wack, Wack. I might want you guys to talk
that way through a segment one time though, just for Bonzi. Oh, in fact, maybe a kitchen's open
segment will happen. I think that'll be fun. I think that'll be good. Uh, once, one person said
treating veterinary, uh, veterinarians like garbage. Oh, I didn't know that was ever a thing.
But, uh, veterans or veterans. No, veterinarians. I know. You know, because of my dyslexia,
I had like triple checked it. I didn't know if it was veterans or, uh, started to double at,
you know, ask you, but that was a good thing to do. Yeah. Well, and it's me. You got to do that.
I mean, every segment I'm going to mess up a word or something like that. It's a wonder I'm
paid to talk about that. Yeah. I didn't realize that was a thing either though. Wow. Me either. Wow.
I'm like garbage. I thought I was re I thought my dyslexia was messing it up. And it was, um,
um, uh, vegans or, or, or, oh, my vegetarians. Yeah. Vegetarians. I thought, oh, no, it's,
it's veterinarians. I don't know where I don't remember that happening. I don't remember. It could
be a typo. Yeah. But we, uh, I, I do think we've gotten to certainly become a much more, um,
a positive culture with our animals. And we've become much more of a animal, uh, a, a, you
know, domesticated animal culture cats, dogs, fish, all these things and stuff. We're doing more,
more of that than we've ever done before. Um, it, it, I keep coming back to this. Everybody's
talking about how do we get, how do we bring up the population in our city? How do we bring the
population up in our state? And oh, flat tax this or that or whatever. None of that stuff works.
Look at the science. Look at the data. It tells you. Look at Florida. Look at, and Texas,
they are not get, they are not bringing in the people that you think they are bringing in
with these things. What is working dog friendly? Like that's the one thing. You don't have to
believe me. Go ahead and throw it into your search engine. People you can find the same data I do.
Towns and states that are animal friendly are, are the ones that are increasing in population.
End of list. And the ones that have housing available. Yeah.
It's portable. Yes. For pets too. How's it with pets? Yeah. Look at, look at the state. Look at the
states that have raised their minimum wage. Look at their population increase in 20, from 2020
and on. Or whenever they raise their minimum wage, there's another tell for you. Like it's,
this isn't rocket science. It ain't that hard to figure out. No. People need to be able to
afford to live. Yeah. And they need all members of their family to be accepted, including pets.
Exactly. But we do have a shortage of veterinarians in Wisconsin. I know that that is definitely a
feel that we need more people. Yeah. Try to try to get an appointment. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
And it's not just as low, you know, owners, homeowners and stuff that we're dealing with this,
but our, our main societies are. And it's a real issue. Certainly with the rise of having more
and more animals in the homes hasn't matched our, you know, using veterinarians or the,
having enough vets for people going into that field. Right. The lawn care obsession.
Oh, thank goodness. Yes. Yes. That was one of the dumbest things ever. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you,
French. Yeah. Yeah. How about owning a lot of knick-knacks or like expensive, like having a
certainly, you've got the fine China. Oh, you know, those things. The China Hutch.
Yes. Yes. I have one of those. Oh, my, they're nice. I don't hate them, but yeah. It's not a
necessity. No, it's not. My youngest Izzy, her studio apartment that she moved into. I think it
was almost a year ago now. They let the park, she got off on her rent, a little bit knocked off
of her rent because as she redesigned, or she, you know, painted and did some stuff in the apartment
and everything. Yeah. They've got this real nice, curial cabinet. One of those old school ones
that's in the corner. Oh, yeah. Can I round it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, and she really painted that up
really nice and stuff. I, I got to ask her if she, what she's going to do with it. She's still,
when I was there, she was still trying to think of what to do put in there. But put in there.
Yeah. Right. But I haven't seen one of those in decades. Like, it's been a long time since I
seen one of those. I forgot all about that. Man. Yeah. Well, if it's curiosity, Kevin,
and you need your shrunken heads, you know, your cursed jewelry and stuff, your monkey paw,
get your monkey paw on there. Is it really a real hard peculiarity? Yeah. Is it really a
curial cabinet if it doesn't have a monkey paw? Like, really, cable TV shows up on this list.
Except we're heading back. For now. Yes. For now. For now, that's true. But given it a couple
of years, it will be right back to cable TV and did all that. I don't know. Is that better or worse
than streaming? Oh, I don't know. At this point, it's almost a horse of peace. Yeah. I really
guess. It's a dead heat. It's a dead heat race. I don't, all of these have been designed around
money. And there's not consumers. So whether it's streaming or cable or anything, I don't know if
we're ever going to have something that's perfect for people. One of the most short-sighted things
that ever happened in entertainment was the jump to streaming. They did not see, I don't know
how they didn't see it coming. I think all they saw is, oh my gosh, look at what Netflix is doing.
We have to get into this. We have to start doing this. And now they are so regretting it. So
regretting it. I generally think this is a big problem in society. This need to be first to
think. This need to make the call for the bandwagon. Yeah. Or to be the first to a take or these
kind of things. Did you learn nothing from Dan Rather? Did you learn nothing from what happens
with that? One of the greatest newsmen of our generation of our lifetimes taken out because his
producers wanted them to be first to a story. Nobody wins in those scenarios. Give me the correct
story. That's what I care. I agree. I don't care if you've got a hot take. I don't care if you're
loud. I don't care if you're the first quote unquote first person to something. Be right.
Bar soap. That's what we wrap up on the list. Bar soap is something they're saying millennia is
ruined. They ruined bar soap. That's another thing we're coming back to actually. I disagree.
I'm with you on that one, Melissa. I get my bar soap from someone who makes it locally. It's
actually someone I went to high school with. Wow. Wow. Out of out of Toma, Wisconsin, B&T Farms,
she makes the most amazing bar soap in like just phenomenal scents. My favorite is lilac, of course.
And she is the only person that I have found that makes lilac soap that smells right. Shush.
Seth, go away. It's so bad. Oh, no, it's not. Oh, my gosh. Toma, you're wrong. Stop it.
Toma, the city of soap makers. Toma is so many more things than that, but that sounds great,
though. I actually does. What was the name of her business again, Melissa? B&T Farms. To check that
out. We'll have to check that out. We'll get to our state and local news. We'll come back with what
makes you feel most nostalgic over the holidays and get into that. All right. We come back on the
morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio. Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR
locally grown radio.
It's time to talk a little bit more about Christmas as you've got Seth, Melissa, and James here
with you. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody. Hope you're having a great start to your
Wednesday morning. Happy hump day, everyone. Yeah. Just remember, it's Wednesday. Yes.
Just hit me like, oh, it's a day. That's a millennial thing that needs to go away, too.
Yeah, hump day. Yeah, yeah. Every time I say it, I feel corneer. Yeah, it's like corneer,
corneer every time. I feel like as funny as it was that camel ruined it. That was its peak hump day.
Happy hump day, everybody. It made like it's been downhill ever since. Yeah, down down the hump.
For better or worse, the holidays are packed with nostalgia. We are, you know, sleeping,
breathing, eating nostalgia every day. Right. A new survey asks people what ignites the most
nostalgia during the holiday season? For 2,400, 2,600, 715, 424, 2,600, call up and join the
conversation. If you're listening to us on the civic media app, you're just a couple touches
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And we'd love to hear from you. Call up, join the conversation. We'd love that.
Because I want to know what makes you feel nostalgic. We got this list here. We'll get into it
and everything. But I want to know locally what makes you nostalgic, especially if it's local
things that do. Yeah. I've lived in this area long enough now to wear for me when I see the
Christmas lights out, the ones that you see going over the bridges, the city lights, city lights,
and everything. Once those are out, that really hits home for me. And I'm with you. I didn't know
I was going to miss it when I was living in California, but I did. In California, I loved living
out there, but they did not really get into Christmas until like two weeks before. Wow.
It was like they don't have snow. Yeah. It was weird. But wherever I was, Santa Barbara,
Carpenteria, LA, it was like that. It dawned up and down the state. It was almost like,
hey, wait a minute. Christmas is here. I love that about this area.
Like for me in the home, it's my mom, this cardboard boxes filled with like, oh, that's
the Christmas box. When those come out. Yes. When those come out, now like she doesn't even need
to put the stuff out. And I'm already singing jingle bells in my head or something like that.
Is there anything for you to? Is anything off the top of your mind? You want me to get into
list and maybe it'll spring some stuff? I would say the smell of baking cookies is nostalgic for me
because my mom used to make so many white Christmas cutout cookies and that we'd spend like a whole
weekend making these cookies. And then we got to decorate them too with different colored frosting
and sprinkles and all the different shapes. That was that was a very poignant Christmas memory for me.
That's a good one. Yeah, we did something similar. Melissa, when my house, we would do the same thing,
you know, the cutouts and decorate them with frosting and everything like that. For me,
it's kind of, it's more of a, I don't know what you would call it. It was when I would come in
out of the snow and cold into the house. You know, that first like burst of warm air when you
walk into the house, you go, all your snow gear on and you're up, been out playing in the snow
for, you know, an hour or however long it's been. And you come in and there's that warmth,
that feeling of warmth when you walk into the house, you start taking off your wet, you know,
stuff and everything like that. And you start to warm up, maybe have a cup of cocoa. That for some
reason, that specifically reminds me of Christmas, even though it was like all winter, you know,
because I'm up in northern Minnesota. So, uh, yeah, but for some reason, that's the thing that
that makes me the warmth, the warmth, any kind of warmth. That's good. A new survey asked people,
what ignites, that may, that may be the most Minnesota thing you've ever seen. Probably,
maybe not. Yeah. Yeah. Then you bet you. Yeah. Nice. Nice. A new survey asked people,
what ignites the most nostalgia during the holiday season and the number one response was
spending time with loved ones. Oh, yeah. Decorating the Christmas tree was a close second,
followed by seeing holiday lights, holiday music, holiday movies, baking cookies, uh,
cooking holiday meals, receiving a holiday card and vintage decorations. Vintage decorations.
I like that. That's a good one. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Uh, and some holiday traditions might only be done
for the sake of nostalgia. In the same survey, 22% of people admit that they probably spend more time
planning and putting up their decorations than they do actually relaxing and enjoying them.
I suppose it depends when you put them up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's up to do with that. I'm
fairly. If you wait till the last two weeks before Christmas, California, then you even have a
lot of time to enjoy them. Yeah. Well, that's only if you're of the school that's like Christmas day
and then you're done. You know, like, I'm going to take them all out of there. You got to do the
12 days of Christmas. You know, there are 12 days. Yeah. Or even at least the month of December.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. To me, um, I, I like the idea of celebrating Christmas right up to the end of
the year. Yeah. Right up until until New Year's Eve and then it kind of takes, then New Year's Eve
kind of takes over. Okay. It's only six extra days. Right. Right. And it's such a big day and we
only get it once a year. I don't see any issue with that, especially all the pomp and circumstance
that goes into it and everything might as well let it last a couple extra days. I agree.
Where I also feel like a hypocrite, though, because I have the exact opposite feeling about
the exgiving in the last week in November. Where you just want it to disappear from your calendar.
Yeah. Yeah. I did it completely get rid of it. Just completely get rid of it. What did the last
week in November do to you, man? I don't know. It is Reagan on it. I really time to recover.
So I don't disagree with you guys. And yet I can't budge on this. I just got to be honest.
I'm really sorry. All right, Seth. All right. We got to find a find something for James to enjoy
that last week. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe? Maybe?
Or you know what? I think maybe that should be the week. James takes vacation. Oh. Oh.
Oh. Yeah. I don't know. Something he's never done. Yeah. I don't know what a bluffing at
more. The idea of me being on vacation or or or that that thought because that's a good one. You
got that nail. That may have nailed it. Melissa. That looks good. Melissa, I think the challenge is
before us now. It may have to involve a kidnapping. It might. To get him to go. But you know.
Yep. And and and it'll all have to be staged. They'll be a script and costumes. Potentially
a makeup artist. Oh, God. I love that. They're both full of into it. Yeah. Exactly. I don't think
I've ever felt this way before where I actually am getting angry that people know me because
don't do so well. And I'm furious over here. It's not bright. It's not fair. We're taking a break.
I got too red faced. We got to take a break. We'll be back with more fun on the morning show at
WFHR. Christmas music. Christmas music. Christmas music. We have to set it up beforehand.
Christmas music. Welcome back everybody. Christmas music. Bumper music wasn't there for us.
I cappella version though. Yes. Thank you. Patatons. Thank you. Patatons.
We have some good stuff to keep you right to the top of the hour. Everybody we're going to be
getting into. And I wanted to touch on this one before we wrapped up because this is at that
at any right store. I think most of us can agree on it. Even if you are a big fan of this product.
You know you've got a sophisticated palette when you're reaching for a shot of this
Dorito flavored liquor. No. No. It doesn't exist. Yeah. Yeah. A spirit company in Denmark called
Epper, Epper, Epper Perseole. It doesn't matter. Maybe don't name your company something
that's hard to say. Yeah. Come on. Well, we're not Danish. That's true. Very true.
Very good point. They partnered with PepsiCo. So it's an official Dorito's law liquor. Right.
It's supposed to taste exactly like nacho cheese version. And it's 84 proof. My gosh.
42% alcohol. Which they needed to make it that strong for people to drink it.
That's a little stronger than your average 80 proof liquor. Right. They're calling it
an uncategorized spirit. But it's basically cheating. No cheating. It's cheese flavored vodka.
Really? All the other categories are like, no, we're not taking that. Yeah. No.
No. That's not a lot of our club. It's no. It's being described as basically just a
cheese flavored vodka. So does it actually taste like Dorito's? According to people who have tried it
yes, but that's not a good thing. They're saying that they got it right, but they're not happy. They
got it right basically. It also smells like them. A writer for food in wine said it has a bouquet
that's quote, brimming with the unmistakable tang of cheese dust. Oh my gosh.
They thought the aftertaste was a little more like cheesy bouquet. They thought the aftertaste was
more like fritos than Doritos though. Oh wow. The evil geniuses behind this is a former chef
named Lars Williamson who co-founded this company. He's actually been a chef. You got fired.
You got kicked out. He's actually been making Dorito infused booze for years. It started when
an employee came back from lunch with a bag of them. Lars saw the bag, wondered if it was possible
and started experimenting with it. Oh wow. That work. They announced pre-orders would start today
at 9 a.m. Eastern. It's not clear how many bottles there are, but we assume they'll sell out fast
because everything does. Very limited run, I'm sure. Here's one of the best parts of this. 65 bucks.
What? 65 bucks are going to cost you for these. $65. It's a lot of money for a gag gift.
And they missed the mark on this. They missed the the the easiest thing here. It's right under
the nose. It's Occam's razor. If you're going to do this, you've got to have it so the cheese
dust is on your fingers. That's the best part of Doritos. Getting the lick and the cheese dust off.
They're missing the best part of the Dorito. Right, right, man. It should come with a pack of
cheese dust. Yes, it should. Otherwise, it's not you miss me. You miss me on this.
Okay, let's put aside our just taste for a moment. How would you drink this liquor?
The only way I can think that it would be good is in a Bloody Mary.
The tomato and the cheese. I see where you're going with that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I see that. I see that.
I had a trick. Boy, I hadn't even thought of it. Yeah, you got one of those.
I've a shirt, a shirt or a shirt or a shirt or a shirt or a shirt or a shirt or a shirt or a shirt or a shirt or a shirt or a shirt or a shirt.
Yeah, you have some of this with that. Yeah. Uh, what is going on in Denmark. Yeah, it's
good for you. Seriously, they are they more depressed than usual. Um, you know, as as Hamlet has shown us,
man, those days, they're all depressed. It's very depressing there. That's a great love.
I love the idea of hustle. Is this just everybody else outside of Denmark, just basic everything we have on
down to Hamlet. Yeah, I like that. I would you try this even like you didn't not buying it. Just you're at
the bar. The bartenders offering free shots. Would you try a shot of this? No, I don't think I do a
whole shot. No, maybe sip it. Mm-hmm. I just because it doesn't contain any actual cheese.
I love to say, yeah, I love to say I wouldn't, but I know me and I know that if I'm there with my friends at
the bar and there's a challenge put out there, of course, then I'm doing it. Then I'm being completely
honest about that. Yeah. As long as it tastes like Doritos, not mashed potatoes. Yes, that would be a
bridge too far for you. Right. Now you're going too far. We need a literal palate cleanser after
that one. We really do. We're really doing it. We're going to get the cheese dust somehow have that
aftertaste. I'm not sure how it happened. It's in my brain too. Yeah. Today joined us from 3 to 4
from Midday magazine. Got a great one lined up for you today. Steven and Katrina hitner from
Family Natural Foods kicked it off. Love our friends from Steven and Katrina hitner from Family
Natural Foods. Be sure to join them. Their doors are open right now. Be ahead and head on over to
Family Natural Foods. Say hi for Christmas shopping maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Get on over there and find out
some of the great things that they've got today at three o'clock. Then at 3.30 we're going to welcome
in our friends from Encourage. We've got of course Kim Shields from Encourage along with Betsy Wood
and Dawn Newman. I'm going to be talking with them. Look forward to it. It's going to be a great
conversation. Very good. Going to be good stuff going on there. And of course we've got plenty more
good things coming up for you throughout the rest of the day. Be sure to stay here and check out
check in all of our local civic media line up. Lots of great stuff lined up for you.
Want to get some local good stories at the day and is Wednesday. There's something we do on Wednesday.
Something's something. It's always bingo guys. It's always bingo. Right. Oh b-i-n-g.
It's big. Oh, it was got some reference. Oxlodge number 693 at 4.30 West Jackson Street.
Dores open at 5. Bingo starts at 6.30. It's bingo. It's fun. Support the outs.
Just head on over there everybody. And I know over there. It's fun game. It is.
We've got some great local concerts going on in our area with our local high schools over at the
let's see here. I wanted to make sure to get the dates of this. Right. Yeah. So the next one coming up
locally here is tomorrow. The sixth, seventh, and eighth grade choirs for Rams are going to be
having their concert at six o'clock tomorrow. Be sure to take that in if you get a chance. Again,
the sixth, seventh, and eighth grade choirs. Their concert will be at six at the Rams Auditorium.
Support these kids. Make sure to get to every one of these shows that you can.
Yes indeed. That's going to. And I think the littles are even are before that.
The K through three. See, I was trying to find that Melissa. Thank you. I think that's in
I think it's under Kusa. Actually, if I remember correctly, but I don't have it in front of me. So
anyway, I think it's at five, 15, whenever the littles are performing, it's it's bad. Yeah. Yeah.
And keep that in mind and make sure to take that into. Yes. You got to get the littles.
You got to get the little kids in there on that one. It's the cutest thing. And we have going on
this Friday, a fantastic event in town to holiday health resource fair in Wisconsin Rapids taking
place over at Midstey Tech. Melissa is going to be our MC for this. She's going to be down there
in the live remote for this event. Melissa, tell us about it a little. I'm going to be there
from three to five, but the event goes on until seven. They're going to have a lot of fun activities
for the kids, free pictures with Santa. I think there's face painting and balloon animals.
And then we've also got free COVID and flu shots, diabetes screening, blood pressure checks.
Find out about free health resources in our community. And it's also for them and
Spanish speaking populations as well. There will be people there to help translate, to help
understand and navigate insurance. This is this is a wonderful event that is put on by the H2N
network for our area to help you find local health resources in our area. Yeah. It's going to be a
great event. Not only a good opportunity to get out of the house and do some things, but maybe
you know, you've been meaning to get your blood pressure checked. Here's a great opportunity
to do it. And it's all a free event. Encourage it ahead and on over to mid-state and take this
event. Melissa, the library. In the gymnasium. Yeah. The live broadcast will be right on our sister
station, W-I-R-I. Be sure to check that. That's right. We'll be competing for listeners, Melissa.
I'll be over there and take a vaccine. No. No. No. The Gotlin has been thrown down.
We don't have to compete. Thanks to our great friends at Civic Media. Everything we do is
podcasted. So you go ahead and check out the podcasts of any of our shows if you miss them.
So check out James' this podcast because mine won't be listening to me live.
Right. That's darn right. Be sure to take that in and stop on by mid-state Friday and say hi to
Melissa. Get a shirt or maybe some stickers or something. I'll be giving away stuff like crazy.
That's going to be cool. Be sure to take in the event. We'll be talking about it leading right
up to it. Make sure you get a big crowd, Melissa. I think for Christmas events, instead of face
painting, they should have face Santa fake beards for kids. Oh, I like that. And then everyone
get a big picture. That would be awesome. Yes. That would be. Oh, think I'm cute.
That looks good. A bunch of little kids with a beard. Oh, I like great. I just need some cotton balls.
That's right. As we wrap up with our good local good stories of the day, we go local and by local,
I mean Sweden, our Finland. Get an idiot. Yeah. We got another email from Hanyu. This is
actually a different one. Hanyu emailed us. Thank you so very much for your great programming.
Hello from Finland. Here on the Northern latitudes of Finland, Northern Europe, they're listening,
you're listening audience, managed to tune into your broadcast on 97 5 FM 13 20 AM with my
special communications receiver and a long outdoor copper wire. Wow. So he got it over the air waves.
This is what he's saying. He didn't get it on the internet. He got it over the air. That's just
so cool. That's really cool. He goes on in the email to tell us exactly the exact, you know,
stuff and everything that he did. Very technical, but it's cool. Yeah. It's really,
really cool. It's really interesting. A big shout out to all of our friends in Europe.
Let's cover all of Europe. We'll just cover all of Europe. You know who you are. I appreciate
you. Appreciate you. And we appreciate those of you that support the arts and we encourage you to
take in this amazing show. A Johnny Cash Christmas is going on tomorrow at the performing art
center here in Wisconsin Rabbits at 1811 63 South Wisconsin Rabbits show begins at 730.
You can get your tickets at saverthearts.org, saverthearts.org. We should go there and get those
tickets. Or if you want a couple for free, call up right now. Right tickets 715 424 2600. That's 424
2600. Give me your favorite Johnny Cash song. Your favorite Johnny Cash song. That's all you got to
do. You get it. That's easy. Yeah. That's give me that. And you'll get two tickets to go see
Terry Lee Goffey. Amazing gentleman. Encourage you to check out the midday magazine interview with him
as well that we did. That was a really fun time. Check or online some great videos of him too.
Yeah. It's very good. Great show you too. Thanks so much. You too, man. Thank you James.
We'll have a have a good day. You too. Have a good day. Everybody out there. We'll talk to you soon
and later right here on WFHR locally grown radio.